1899 - in Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.
1969 - Dad's Army episode Operation Kilt is first broadcast
1969 - During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
1971 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
1995 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy
1995 - Daniel Sleator announces his intentions to commercialize the Internet Chess Server (ICS) himself, renames it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charges a yearly membership fee of $49 to howls of protest
1995 - R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a Switzerland concert after suffering a brain aneurysm, which requires immediate surgery
2002 - 28 people die in continuing violence in Ahmedabad. Police shoot and kill five while attempting to control rioters.
2002 - The Envisatenvironmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800km above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500kg.
2003 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Arab Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Bahrain and Kuwait.
2003 - Iraq disarmament crisis: the Turkish speaker of Parliament voids the vote accepting U.S. troops involved in the planned invasion of Iraq into Turkey on constitutional grounds. 264 votes for and 250 against accepting 62,000 US military personnel do not constitute the necessary majority under the Turkish constitution, due to 19 abstentions.
2003 - Attack Submarine USS-Lapon (now ex-Lapon SSN-661) starts to be deactivated
2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti, announces that his resignation of February 29 was forced, and that he was forced to leave the country by American soldiers.
There is surely something affecting in the contemplation of a life devoted with such unslackening zeal to a task of such a nature as this—calculated to prove serviceable, but under such circumstances that the individual worker could never derive any benefit from it.
of March 1468-69, William Caxton began, at the city of Bruges, to translate the Recueil of the Histories of Troy from the French, at the command of Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, sister of the English King Edward IV The work was finished on the 19
of March 1857, is one among many days associated with the bestowal of the Victoria Cross upon heroic soldiers and sailors.
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1919 - March1st Movement begins in Korea.
2007 - "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
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